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100 Years Ago: Well-Known Marlborough Citizen Succumbs to Cancer

Six days a weeks (Mon—Sat) Marlborough Patch will highlight an interesting story from the Marlborough Daily Enterprise published on that date 100 years ago.

The Marlborough Daily Enterprise was published every day except Sunday in 1911, and as it so happens, May 21 was a Sunday. Here is a headline from the following day.

May 22: Death of P.J. Conway: Well Known Marlboro Citizen Passed away Sunday Evening

Patrick J. Conway Died at his home, 61 Liberty St., Sunday evening at 5:30, after a long illness with cancer. He was 58 years, two months and five days old. Cancer was the cause of his death and he had been a sufferer with the dread malady for nine months.  

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